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by Allan Goddard Hello readers! I have had numerous...

Noreen Young’s early drawings on exhibit at the Sivarulrasa Gallery.

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The Tunic Show at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

by Edith Cody-Rice On Saturday August 1, the...

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Answers to Diana’s Quiz – August 1, 2026

by Diana Filer 1.  Alanis Morissette, the Canadian rock artist from Ottawa, composed Jagged Little Pill.  She has won 5 Grammys and 14 Juno Awards so far. 2.  American millionaire Ted...

Diana’s Quiz – August 1, 2026

by Diana Filer 1.  Who composed the music and lyrics for the rock album Jagged Little Pill? 2.  Who created the television channel CNN? 3.  Pink Ladies and Granny Smiths are what...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – July 18, 2026

by Diana Filer 1.  The two Diomede Islands are located in the Bering Strait.  Big Diomede Island belongs to Russia, and Little Diomed to the USA. 2.  Mascarpone cheese is the...
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Diana’s Quiz – November 1, 2014

Who was King of the Scots from 1040 to 1057? What team games on horseback include such challenges as pole bending, chase me Charlie and...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – October 25, 2014

Ochre is a pigment made of iron oxide and clay. Robert Allen Zimmerman is Bob Dylan. The lepton is a weak subatomic particle, the  best known...

Diana’s Quiz October 25, 2014

What is an earthy pigment composed of iron oxide and clay? Robert Allen Zimmerman is better known as who? What is a former monetary unit of...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – October 18, 2014

The summer triangle, which can be seen in the northern sky until November, refers to the stars Altair, Deneb and Vega A round-robin petition is...

Diana’s Quiz – October 18, 2014

Which 3 stars form what is commonly referred to as ‘the summer triangle’?  What is a ‘round-robin’ petition?  Peregrin Took and Samwise Gamgee are members of...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – October 4, 2014

‘Andante con moto’ means moderately slow or, literally, ‘walking with motion’. Marc Mayer is the Director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada. The Hundred...

Diana’s Quiz – October 4, 2014

What is the meaning of the musical term, ‘andante con moto’? Who is the Director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada? What was the...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – September 27, 2014

Oedipus solved the riddle of the Sphinx, the answer of which is ‘man’. The first name of Caravaggio is Michelangelo.  Michelangelo’s surname is Buonarroti. Indonesia has...

Diana’s Quiz – September 27, 2014

In Greek mythology, who solved the riddle of the Sphinx:  what walks on 4 legs in the morning; 2 legs at noon, and...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – September 20, 2014

 ‘Password’ and ‘123456’ are the 2 commonest passwords  20/20 vision is so called because it indicates normal visual acuity from a method of testing subjects...

Diana’s Quiz – September 20, 2014

What are the 2 commonest English language computer passwords?   Why is normal vision called ‘20/20’? In Greek mythology, the nine muses were the daughters of...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz, September 13, 2014

Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.  The Guar bean, or cluster bean, is a legume cultivated mostly today in India and Pakistan. ...

Diana’s Quiz – September 13, 2014

Which is the poorest country in the western hemisphere? Guar gum is a well-known thickener in many prepared foods.  Where does guar come from? What religion...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – September 6, 2014

 The ‘cooked earth’ pottery is terra cotta.  A delayed offside in hockey: If an attacking player is offside inside the blue line, but the defending team has...
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